Identifer: CJF R 0348

Medium
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Topics
Destroyed Communities

Collections
Holocaust Medals, Plaques, Tokens & Pins, Cincinnati Judaica Fund Research Collection

Description
This medal was issued in honor of the Jewish Communities in the Southeast part of Poland which were destroyed during the Shoah.  The medal was designed by the Polish artist, Jolanta Slomianowska.

In 1962 a monument commemorating the victims of Holocaust was unveiled on the Square of Ghetto Victims, on the 20th anniversary of the extermination of the ghetto in Lublin. The monument was designed by Jan Tarabuła and Bogumił Zagajewski. It was made of dark stone and resembles the shape of tombstone (matzevah). At its base there are names of the work and extermination camps, to which the Lublin Jews were transported during the occupation (Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka, Majdanek, Trawniki, Poniatowa, Budzyń i Zamość).
 
Several inscriptions were engraved on the monument. These include a sign: “In eternal memory of the Polish citizens of Jewish origin from the Lubelskie province, who were atrociously murdered by the Nazi during the years of World War II”, a quote in Yiddish and Polish from “The Song of the Murdered Jewish Nation” by Itzhock Kanzenelson: “In every handful of ash I seek my friends”. In the course of time, the monument was transported to the corner of Radziwiłłowska and Niecała Street.